Bounds of Passion: Adultery, Gender and Modernization of Penal Practices in Ottoman Society From the Classical Age to 1915

Adultery (zinā’) as a sexual act is double-edged affair that plays prominent part in reshaping the legal and social image of both adulterer cheated person. Besides being phenomenon, adultery process transforms people into objects positive law. Throughout history, various sanctions have punished adulterers, compensated those who violated rights arising from family ties. Punishment for adultery, which sometimes reveals itself exposure, violence or execution, has gained more secular character with progress contemporary systems. Thus, strict attitude Middle Ages early modern period on crimes gradually softened because transformation From viewpoint Ottoman criminal code, nourishes Islamic heritage, had to bring about fine, but there were still some cultural forms directed at displaying, would humiliate adulterers society without discrimination between men women. With Tanzimat period, other hand, principles Western countries became origin modernization law system. This scene influenced parameters furnished juridical content infidelity manner extracted by overlapping it. study shall seek discover roots modifications regarding institution terms classical age 1915.